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  • Margery And Medieval Christians
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    Religion in the Middle Ages takes on a character all of its own as it is lived out differently in the lives of medieval men and women spanning from ordinary laity to vehement devotees. Though it is difficult to identify what the average faith consists of in the Middle Ages, the life told of a radical devotee in The Book of Margery Kempe provides insight to the highly intense version of medieval paths of approaching Christ. Another medieval religious text, The Cloud of Unknowing, provides a recor...
  • Christian Notions Of Sin
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    One of the characteristics of medieval English literature is its high allegorist. It also applies to the whole European literature of Dark Ages, as well. This is because Christian dogma could not satisfy peoples spiritual needs any longer, being unable to correspond to the realities of their everyday lives. It is not a secret that Church used to resist any attempts to translate Bible from Latin into contemporary European languages, as it posed the danger of people being able to learn about nonse...
  • Biblical Christian Culture
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    This is the best new book I have read this year. Kelley is by no means a new author but this is a more sweeping work revealing the author's keen grasp of the philosophy of history and particularly of Western civilization. Kelley positions the roots of Western civilization in the Homeric and Platonic world of ancient Greece, but unlike many Christians and previous generations and today will brook no compromise with this "enlightenment paganism" as a valid expression of culture. He shrewdly observ...
  • Time Of Great Controversy For Medieval Scholars
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    The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of great controversy for medieval scholars. New systems of thought were being developed and implemented that challenged the accepted teachings of the church. Some fought to preserve tradition, others fought to destroy it, while still others sought to find a common ground between the two. The greatest controversy of the times, it can be said, was that of faith and reason. Most philosophical debate revolved around these and to a lesser extent the op...
  • Original Superstitions From The Middle Ages
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    Superstitions: A Heritage from the Middle Ages "Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them". 1 The philosophies that dominated medieval Europe were those of the Catholic Church, and instead of putting out the flames of superstition, these philosophies contributed to their creation. Augustine of Hippo was a bishop who developed theology in western society during the decline of Rome. 2 During a discussion with a friend about his latest theological book he stated: We can ...

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